Re: heading levels

2014-05-06 Thread Catherine Turner
Hi, Please could you say what Activities is and where I can find out more about it? Haven't found out about this so far. Catherine On 5/6/14, David Taylor e.david.tay...@icloud.com wrote: I have used activities. In browsers my activity has quick nav and single letter nav on, in chat type

Re: heading levels

2014-05-06 Thread David Taylor
Getting started guide from VO help menu, VO-h. Everybody should read this in full and explore the VO Utility in full, where they would find all of these things On 6 May 2014, at 08:14, Catherine Turner catherineturner2...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Please could you say what Activities is

Fwd: UEB on the I phone.

2014-05-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Begin forwarded message: From: Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com Date: 6 May 2014 09:58:16 am BST To: applebrai...@googlegroups.com applebrai...@googlegroups.com Subject: UEB on the I phone. Reply-To: applebrai...@googlegroups.com Morning. I am trying to write UEB using my Braille

Re: Using Moodle on the mac?

2014-05-06 Thread Jessica
I do not he's it, but I have heard that blackboard is designed in such a way that it does not work with any screen reader. If you try it, can you let us know of your results? I'd be curious to see if something has changed that would make it accessible. Sent from my iPhone On May 5, 2014, at

Re: Using Moodle on the mac?

2014-05-06 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Jessica, I can't imagine why anyone would say that Blackboard doesn't work with any screen-reader. I've used it extensively in Windows, and some on the Mac, and was able to use it on both platforms. the webpages are very large in Blackboard and contain a lot of content, so it's worth

Re: Using Moodle on the mac?

2014-05-06 Thread Jessica
As I said before, I do not use it. How can i test it? Sent from my iPhone On May 6, 2014, at 7:33 AM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi Jessica, I can’t imagine why anyone would say that Blackboard doesn’t work with any screen-reader. I’ve used it extensively in Windows, and

Re: Using Moodle on the mac?

2014-05-06 Thread Donna Goodin
You'd have to be on a college campus that uses it in order to test it. Donna On May 6, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: As I said before, I do not use it. How can i test it? Sent from my iPhone On May 6, 2014, at 7:33 AM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Hi

Re: using the gmail website

2014-05-06 Thread Terje Strømberg
Some people find that gail does not work so good in Mavericks. Others have not much problems eitn gmail in Mavericks. After cahnging to basic html view, you can use normal Voice Over commands. I have pasted some old gmail stuff in here i have saved in a folder. I am not an expert either. You

Re: heading levels

2014-05-06 Thread Alex Hall
It's in the VO Utility. An Activity is a way to customize VO for a particular application, from specific voices or pronunciations, to punctuation levels, to, well, a ton of things. Be warned, though, that some people find using Activities to render app switching painfully slow. On May 6, 2014,

Re: convering files to ogg

2014-05-06 Thread sb356607
i have too many files for sox. Sent from my iPhone On May 5, 2014, at 20:31, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: If you want to play with the terminal the sox command will convert to ogg, although I don't usually use ogg so I couldn't really test the

Re: using the gmail website

2014-05-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you're comfortable with Chrome and/or ChromeVox, it's much friendlier when working with Google sites. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 6, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com wrote: Some people find that gail does not work so good in

Re: Moving playlist out of folder?

2014-05-06 Thread Kayaker
Hi, This is what I would call a non-elegant solution, but I assume this isn't a smart playlist. I would just go to the playlist, select all files from the table view, and create a new playlist from selection, then delete the old playlist in the folder. Clunky, but should do the trick. If it's

Mail and loading messages

2014-05-06 Thread Tim Emmons
Hi guys, this is Tim in Alabama. I am running into an issue this morning, with mail. I'm running MountainLion, on my mac Mini at work. When I go to interact with a message doing the Vo J to jump into the message, it gives me the message conent and says loading, and I can't interact. I also

Re: UEB on the I phone.

2014-05-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Kawal, this may seem like an obvious point, but you may have your Braille table set not to use uEB. Go into settings, accessibility, VO, Braille and review your settings. Make sure your Braille table is set to UeB. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On May 6, 2014, at 1:59

Re: UEB on the I phone.

2014-05-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
UEB is the default table as I set it up myself when I connected my Focus 40 Blue. On 6 May 2014, at 03:46 pm, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, Kawal, this may seem like an obvious point, but you may have your Braille table set not to use uEB. Go into settings, accessibility,

tmux

2014-05-06 Thread DD
I use gnu screen that comes with os10 to do multitasking and multiple simultaneous terminal sessions. I can download a large amount of material while browsing or doing email for example. There is also tmux which does the same thing. There is a macports version of this. Has anyone had

Re: convering files to ogg

2014-05-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
So you are saying you want to do a big batch? Are they all in the same folder? If so you can just make a shell script that loops through them all and converts them. CB On 5/6/14, 9:23 AM, sb356...@gmail.com wrote: i have too many files for sox. Sent from my iPhone On May 5, 2014, at

Re: convering files to ogg

2014-05-06 Thread sb356607
They are in several different folders. Sent from my iPhone On May 6, 2014, at 9:41, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: So you are saying you want to do a big batch? Are they all in the same folder? If so you can just make a shell script that loops

Re: Using Moodle on the mac?

2014-05-06 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, I have used BlackBoard as well with VoiceOver. Just like with Moodle, it works well with VoiceOver, as long as browsers and such are up to date. You also might need Flash for these and for some parts to work, you'll need to allow popups from these sites for some features to work properly.

Re: Using Moodle on the mac?

2014-05-06 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, I have used BlackBoard as well with VoiceOver. Just like with Moodle, it works well with VoiceOver, as long as browsers and such are up to date. You also might need Flash for these and for some parts to work, you'll need to allow popups from these sites for some features to work properly.

virtualbox

2014-05-06 Thread mattias
maybe litle ot but i must ask i run windows 7 on bootcamp macbook pro and i installed virtualbox but cant for my life set a working host key -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Mail and loading messages

2014-05-06 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, Try completely quoting and restarting Mail. I've seen that message a lot, even on Mavericks, and that usually fixes it. Hope this helps, Jeffrey On May 6, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Tim Emmons temmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, this is Tim in Alabama. I am running into an issue this morning, with

Re: convering files to ogg

2014-05-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
There are a number of shell scripts out there that will batch convert using sox. This one seemed simpler than the others: for i in *.aiff do sox -t ogg $i new-files/$(basename $i) done So you would just run that in each folder. Basically it looks for all the files in the current directory

Re: looking for a bluetooth headset that talks

2014-05-06 Thread Christina C.
The Motorola S11-flex HD does. I wanted ear buds instead of headphones. I have to say, that these work great but I have a really tiny head and wished they were a bit smaller. They pair very nicely with my iPhone 5S. The range on them is super great and that is why I kept them even though they

Re: looking for a bluetooth headset that talks

2014-05-06 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Christina! Those Aftershokz that are mentioned do not sit in or on the Ear! Rather in front and use conduction through your bones! So your Ears are completely free to hear all around you! So just down to if you can afford them! HTH Colin On 6 May 2014, at 18:45, Christina C.

Re: looking for a bluetooth headset that talks

2014-05-06 Thread Christina C.
Oh, that is very interesting. I've never tried bone conduction headphones. Is the sound quality good enough to hear the words on audiobooks. That is mainly what I use my headset for. :) Do they stay put or do they fall off easily? I have very small ears. Thanks, Christina Sent from Christina's

Setting Styles in Pages using Voice Over

2014-05-06 Thread Rowena Portch
Has anyone successfully assigned a style to a paragraph using Voice Over in Pages? I have tried and get very frustrated with the process. If you've had better luck, please share. I do have some hotkeys assigned to my most used styles, but occasionally I need to assign a style that is not used

Re: Setting Styles in Pages using Voice Over

2014-05-06 Thread Isaac Hebert
First open pages. Next create a new document. Next jump to the formater using vo j. Next vo right arrow to the paragraph styles button and press vo space to activate it. Next you find the styles table and you will interact with it with vo shift down arrow. Next vo right arrow or left arrow

OT: ATT 2Wire HGV3600 Gateway and UDP and TCP Port Forwarding

2014-05-06 Thread Daniel Chavez
Hi, I'm having serious trouble with ATT UVerse equipment and hope someone can help. Prior to getting ATT UVerse, I used the EchoLink application for ham radio operators. EchoLink uses TCP port 5200 and UDP ports 5198 to 5199 for it's operations. I created 2 application definitions; 1 for TCP,

apple hardware test question

2014-05-06 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi, Does anybody here know if the apple hardware tests that you can invoke when you hold down the letter d and the option key on boot are accessible? thanks! Cait -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: apple hardware test question

2014-05-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I don't think so. The hardware diagnostics are supposed to run independent of whatever is stored on your hard drive and such. They would need to load some shell of OSX to get speech and load up voices from the hard drive. The hardware diagnostics should be running at a level lower than that to

Re: looking for a bluetooth headset that talks

2014-05-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Christina. I can't wear traditional bluetooth head phones even if they have ear buds as my ears are very small and I can't rest anything in them. As Colin says, the Aftershokz are the best as they do not fall off one's head and your ears are free. They are very good if someone has a

problem after most recent Mavericks update

2014-05-06 Thread don bishop
Hi all, I'm having a problem where I loose voiceover speech for several seconds periodically. I can't see a pattern to the speech loss, and it eventually comes back. I've been noticing this since the last Mavericks update. I took the machine into the Apple store and the tech cleaned up a

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
The main constraint I've noticed when running virtual machines is Windows beats on the hard drive. So my CPU will be taking a nap while Windows does who-knows-what on the hard drive. In other words, Windows is an I/O bound not CPU bound process. Sure, if you're doing something CPU intensive on

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Do you only get 32 RAM on an iMac? As this is what I have! On 6 May 2014, at 09:41 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: The main constraint I've noticed when running virtual machines is Windows beats on the hard drive. So my CPU will be taking a nap

Re: problem after most recent Mavericks update

2014-05-06 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Yes, I have been having problems. I associated them with installing Airfoil, but it could easily be the Mavericks update that started the same issue. Turning VO off and on again gets my audio back though. Cheers Dave On 6 May 2014, at 21:39, don bishop w6...@donbishop.org wrote: Hi all,

Creatimg rules on icloud.com

2014-05-06 Thread Jessica
Hi Cam i please have step by step instructions for using ic-oud.com to create rules that would sync across devices? Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Focus Blue 40 and the Mac.

2014-05-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. A few months ago, I connected my Focus Blue 40 via Bluetooth using my I Mac and everything connected fine. Now although I'm running a developer seed, using Mavericks, my Focus 40 Blue will not connect via Bluetooth. I get the message, 'can't load braille driver'. What does that mean

RE: problem after most recent Mavericks update

2014-05-06 Thread Matthew Dyer
Hi, Iam not having anyproblems. I have a imac 27 inch with 8 gb of ram so not sure what isgoing on. Matthew -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of don bishop Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 4:39 PM To:

Is there a trick to using VoiceOver to read mail messages in the Mail application?

2014-05-06 Thread Rowena Portch
I'm having issues trying to navigate through mail messages.How do you get to the pane that contains the full message? I tried to stop interacting with the current pane, and then pressing VO - Right Arrow but it continues to read the abbreviated version of the message. -- You received this

Re: Setting Styles in Pages using Voice Over

2014-05-06 Thread Rowena Portch
Thank you, Issac. This was very helpful. I could not access the menu associated with a particular style I'm not sure why. Also, the hot key that I have set for my other styles do not work when Voice Over is turned on. I need to turn off VO, use the hot key (F4) and then I need to turn Voice

Re: Focus Blue 40 and the Mac.

2014-05-06 Thread Scott Berry
My suggestion would be to right to Apple Accessibility. This has been a problem since I got my Macbook Pro in February or March. On May 6, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Hi. A few months ago, I connected my Focus Blue 40 via Bluetooth using my I Mac and

Re: UEB on the I phone.

2014-05-06 Thread Doug Lawlor
Speaking of you EB, does anybody know where I can find a description of all of the UEB character set? Thanks in advance, Doug Sent from my iPhone On May 6, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: UEB is the default table as I set it up myself when I connected my Focus 40

Re: good o c r for mac

2014-05-06 Thread Doug Lawlor
D what formats does fine reader scanned into? Thanks, Doug Sent from my iPhone On May 4, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest Abby Fine Reader. If your a student you can get aa discount too. It normally costs $99.95 but if you get the 30% discount you get it

Re: Is there a trick to using VoiceOver to read mail messages in the Mail application?

2014-05-06 Thread Chris Moore
Try using vo + j to jump between the message list and the message text. Once you jump to the text, you can read it with the arrow keys. Then use vo+j to go back to the message list. There are other methods to read the mail, but I've become used to this one. Chris On May 6, 2014, at 6:36 PM,

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-06 Thread Tristan
I opted with the 13 inch MacBook Air early 2014 model. 1.7 GHZ (turboboost up to 3.3 GHz), 256 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM. I think from what I've heard so far I should be more than set for either VM or bootcamp. On 5/6/14, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Do you only get 32 RAM on an iMac? As this

Re: keyboard question

2014-05-06 Thread Doug Lawlor
Hi Cait, This all sounds very strange. I have a late 2009 white Macbook and when I plug inan external keyboard I get the setup assistant here. Your keyboard may be the problem. Have you tried a different keyboard on your iMac ? What happens then? Doug Sent from my iPhone On May 3, 2014,

Re: Focus Blue 40 and the Mac.

2014-05-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
The current firmware version is 4.57. Be sure you have it. You can write to Freedom scientific Tech Support to get a download link. It is not a public link. hth, Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On May 6, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Scott Berry

Re: UEB on the I phone.

2014-05-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
This link has extensive info and resources: http://www.brailleauthority.org/ueb.html HtH, teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 6, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Doug Lawlor doug.law...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of you EB, does anybody know where I can find a description

Re: Is there a trick to using VoiceOver to read mail messages in the Mail application?

2014-05-06 Thread Scott Rumery
I use the Jump command which is VO-J and it works every time. When you are finished with the message just press VO-J again to jump back to the messages table. Scott Rumery Senior Partner Fedora Outlier, LLC Join us on Thursday May 15 as we hold a Launch Party for our new Mac Master Series. On

command P not working

2014-05-06 Thread Laura Bratton
Hi All, I am using mavericks on a a macbook air. Under the keyboard commander it is set so that command P will open Pages. When I press Command P nothing happens. The other commands such as Command M for mail and command T for the date and time are working. What am I doing wrong? How can I get

Re: command P not working

2014-05-06 Thread Matt Dierckens
If you're talking about right option, then it should work. Option P will print a document. HTH. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On May 6, 2014, at 9:20 PM, Laura Bratton laurarbrat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am

Re: Changing mp3 tags

2014-05-06 Thread Esther
Hi George, The program that Steve recommends for tagging, id3 editor, is available from Pa-Software: http://www.pa-software.com/id3editor/ ID3 Editor v1.21.25 £10.00 (GBP), €12.00 (Euro) or $15.00 (USD) Cheers, Esther On Sunday, May 4, 2014 4:38:34 PM UTC-10, Steve Holmes wrote: I like to

Re: command P not working

2014-05-06 Thread Jessica
This is because command p = print. You will need to change the shortcut key. Sent from my iPhone On May 6, 2014, at 9:20 PM, Laura Bratton laurarbrat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am using mavericks on a a macbook air. Under the keyboard commander it is set so that command P will open

Re: Setting Styles in Pages using Voice Over

2014-05-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Rowena, You should be able to use a hotkey to apply a paragraph style in Pages with VoiceOver on. It always works for me. As for setting a new style and a hotkey, here is what to do. * Press VO-Space on the Paragraph styles button. * If you wish to ad a new style, press VO-Space again

Re: good o c r for mac

2014-05-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Doug, Here is the list of formats for FineReader Pro. PDF, ePub, Word, FB2, Excel, Image, PowerPoint Presentation, HTML, ODT, CSV, TXT, and RTF. Cheers, Anne On 7 May 2014, at 01:16, Doug Lawlor doug.law...@gmail.com wrote: D what formats does fine reader scanned into? Thanks,